concertina

/kɒnsətˈiːnɐ/

/kɑnsɝˈtinə/

Concertina

a small polygonal instrument that resembles an accordion which is played by pressing keys and pulling and pushing its sides

coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle

to concertina

MAIN VERB

collapse like a concertina

Examples

1. The cells are like little bellows, or like a little concertina.

2. And then the six figures came together, like a concertina.

3. They did a lot of barbed wire installation, concertina wire, those kinds of planning efforts to add capability at certain places on the border.

4. Once this is cooking, it's going to separate like a concertina.